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Stenophyllus capillaris coarctatus (E1l.) Britton, Bull. Torr. Club, 21:30, 1894. 
CLOSE-FLOWERED STENOPHYLLUS. 
Scirpus coarctatus Ell. Sk.1:88. 1816, 
Isolepsis coarctatus Torr, Ann, Lye. N. Y.3:352, 1856, 
El. Sk.1:83. Chap. FI. 523, 
‘Louisianian area, Coast of South Carolina to Florida, and west to Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine region. Dry pine ridges, sandy fieids. Mobile County, 
Cottage Hill. September; infrequent. Annual. 
Type locality: ‘Grows in very dry sandy soils. Around Beaufort, common.” 
Herb, Geol. Surv, Herb, Mohr, 
SCIRPUS L. Sp. Pl.1:47. 1753.! 
About 250 species; cosmopolitan from the subaretic to tropical zones. 
Scirpus nanus Spreng. Pugill. 1:4. 1815, Dwarr SALT-WATER RUSH. 
Scirpus parvulus Roem, & Schult. Syst. Veg. 2: 124. 1817. 
S. capillaceus WM. 8k, 1:75. 1816. 
Eleocharis pygmaea ‘Torr, Ann, Lye. N.Y. 3: 318. 1836, 
Gray, Man, ed. 6, 576. Chap. FL 518 Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:471. 
SEACOAST OF EUROPE, SOUTH AFRICA. 
Alleghenian to Lonisianian area. New Brunswick, Quebec, Vaneouver Island, 
south to Florida, Texas, and California? 
ALABAMA: Littoral belt. Muddy banks oceasionally overflowed by salt water. 
Dauphin Island. Baldwin County, Perdido Bay. Perennial. 
Type locality (Spreng. Syst.): ‘Ad Jacum Koelmensem tlor. halens.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Scirpus carinatus (Hook. & Arn.) (Ciray, Proc. Am. Aead, 7: 392, 1868, Not Smith, 
Engl. Fl. 1:60. 1824. KEELED CLUB-RUSH. 
Isolepis carinata Hook. & Arn.; ‘Torr. Ann, Lye. N.Y. 31349. 1836. 
Chap. Fl. Suppl. +60. Wats. Bot. Calif.2:217. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2: 471. 
Loutsianian area. Mississippi to Texas and Arkansas. 
ALABAMA: Credited to the State by Britton. Coast plain? 
Type locality: ‘‘Near New Orleans, 7. Drummond’; on the Arkansas River, Nut/all!” 
Herb. Geol, Surv, Herb. Mohr. 
Scirpus cubensis Poepp. & Kunth in Kunth, Enum. 2:172. 1837, 
CUBAN CLUB-RUSII. 
Scirpus ablepharus Griseb. Cat. Pl. Cub. 240. 1866. 
Oxycaryum schomburkianum Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras. 2, pt. 1:90. 1842. 
Chap. F1. Suppl. 660; ed. 3, 548. 
Cuba, SoutTi AMERICA, AFRICA. 
Louisianian area. Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Coast region. Openswamps. Mobile County, estuary of Mobile River. 
Three-mile Creek, on floating rotting timber. August; rare. Perennial. 
Type locality: “Cuba in paludibus, (Poeppig legit. )”’ 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Scirpus debilis Pursh, fF]. Am. Sept.1:55. 1814. 
Kl. Sk.1:79. Gray, Man. ed.6,580. Chap. 11.519. 
Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. New England, west to Mic 
and Nebraska, south to South Carolina and Georgia. 
ALABAMA: Without specific locality, Britt. & Brown, lL Fl. 1: 264. 
Type locality: ‘‘In wet meadows: Pennsylvania.” 
WEAK CLUB-RUSH, 
thigan, Minnesota, 
Annual. 
Scirpus americanus Pers. Syn.1:68. 1805. THREE-EDGED CLUB-RUSH, 
Scirpus triqueter Michx. Fl. Bor. Am, 2:30. 1808. Not L. 
S. pungens Vahl, Enum, 2:255, 1806. 
KM. 8k.1:80. Gray, Man. ed. 6,579. Chap. F1.519. Wats. Bot. Calif. 2:218, Coul- 
ter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2:471. 
MEXICO, SOUTH AMERICA. 
Throughout North America, on beaches, and borders fresh and saline swamps from 
the Arctic regions to the Gulf. 
'N. L. Britton, list of species of the genera Scirpus and Rynehospora occurring 
in North America, ‘Trans. N.Y. Acad. Sci., vol. 11, pp. 74 to 93. 1892, 
